WLANs / Wi-Fi

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• Smartphone data plans: How to keep bandwidth usage in check

  I love my hometown of San Francisco. Great weather, great views, great food. But terrible radio. So when I'm driving, I've developed the habit of tuning into Pandora on an iPhone that I link to my car radio. Like a lot of other AT&T customers, I'...

• Wi-Fi Direct coming on strong, Broadcom says

  Wi-Fi Direct, a peer-to-peer networking standard that came out last year but has been slow to appear in consumer products, will be in a large percentage of mobile phones by year's end, according to communications chip maker Broadcom.

• Broadcom sees NFC in 10 percent of phones next year

  NFC (near-field communication) will hit the big time in mobile phones next year, joining an array of emerging features that carriers are clamoring for, according to communications chip maker Broadcom.

• Seagate drive streams media to your iPad, iPhone

  The scoop: GoFlex Satellite, by Seagate, about $200.

• Senator questions Google on Wi-Fi snooping

  A U.S. senator resurrected year-old questions about Google Street View cars sniffing Wi-Fi networks Tuesday, when he questioned a company representative about a patent application covering a process to pinpoint location based on nearby Wi-Fi signals.

• Skyhook wins early round in lawsuit against Google

  Skyhook Wireless will be allowed to go forward with its Massachusetts lawsuit against Google, charging the search giant with trying to muscle Skyhook's Wi-Fi location technology out of the Android market. A state judge this week denied Google's reque...

• Motorola jacks up high-end 802.11n Wi-Fi controller capacity tenfold

  Motorola Solutions Tuesday recast its enterprise WLAN product line with a new range of one- and two-radio 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, plus a large-scale controller that can handle 10,000 access points.

• Home Wi-Fi network security: 4 ways to avoid big trouble

  Locking down your home Wi-Fi network with a password is like making sure you eat your broccoli. It's probably good for you, but you probably think it's not much of a priority or a big deal. Well, it's time to make an attitude adjustment. It turns out...

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  Ready or not, iPad, other tablets are in the enterprise

  Any IT department hoping to escape the headaches of supporting iPads in the enterprise should realize that they're more than likely already being brought into the workplace.

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  Wi-Fi group plans to simplify hotspot access

  The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to make getting onto a public hotspot as easy as connecting to a cellular network, a change that mobile operators are likely to welcome as they look to shift more data traffic onto Wi-Fi.

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  Google fined 100K euros for Street View collection of Wi-Fi data

  Google must pay a fine of €100,000 ($US142,000) for the unauthorized collection of information about the location of Wi-Fi hotspots in France by its Street View cars, France's National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has ordered.

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  Google Android thumps Apple iPhone in page load speed

  Android hasn't just surpassed Apple's iPhone in terms of total device sales, but in Web page load time as well.

• New Aruba products blend Wi-Fi, wired access at network edge

  The company that helped pioneer the controller-based enterprise wireless LAN is now selling wired Ethernet switches -- with a twist.

• Wi-Fi is 30% slower than fixed broadband

  Web users relying on Wi-Fi networks rather than fixed broadband connections to access the web experience slower speeds, says Epitiro.

• Tablets, smartphones help boost WLAN sales

  The increasing popularity of tablets and smartphones has helped sales of Wi-Fi equipment reach new highs, according to two recent reports.